The Bombardier beetle is an amazing little creature that challenges
traditional evolutionary thinking. Its unique chemical defense system
is powerful evidence of design by an intelligent Creator.

When frightened, the Bombardier Beetle fires poisonous gas at boiling
water temperature with machine-gun rapidity. The explosion is accompanied
by a flash of light, an audible noise, and a cloud of vapor. By revolving
the tip of Its abdomen, the beetle can aim accurately no matter how
Its enemy
attacks. The Irritating, odorous gas Is effective against ants, preying
mantids, other beetles, frogs, mice, and even people.

Scientists have studied these interesting little beetles to determine
how this amazing system works. Their findings show a highly integrated,
well-designed system. The Bombardier Beetle has special glands to
produce two chemicals, hydrogen peroxide and hydroqulnone. These
are stored in special storage compartments with a chemical inhibitor
which prevents a reaction that would kill the beetle. When the beetle
is disturbed, muscles contract, forcing. the chemicals through a
reaction chamber where an anti-inhibitor is added to deactivate the
inhibitor. The resulting explosion is enough to discourage most would-be
predators!

The question arises as you study this highly integrated
system, "How
could it have evolved?" Remember, evolution supposedly occurs
by random mutation and natural selection. Each step must be selectively
advantageous (or at least not harmful) to be preserved. How, by accidental
combinations of these chemicals, would it be possible to get anything
but an exploded beetle? There Is absolutely no selective advantage
in being dead! Even If some "lucky" beetle gets all the
right chemicals, It stili needs the reaction chamber, the proper
firing mechanism, and the many neurological developments to aim accurately
and distinguish between friends and foes.

In this system, all the parts had to be complete and functioning
at the same Ume before any of It makes sense. The chemicals don't
make sense without the Inhibitor, but the Inhibitor Is useless without
the chemicals. The anti-Inhibitor Is useless without the inhibitor.
The storage chambers and reaction chambers make no sense at all without
all these chemicals, and the firing devise Is useless without all
the rest. Evolution, based on random mutations and natural selection,
would never produce this kind of highly integrated system. Either
the entire system evolved by a lucky gigantic genetic leap (which
contradicts known genetic processes and Is absurd), or It was designed
by an intelligent Designer who knew exactly what was needed from
the start. Creation by an intelligent Designer is the only reasonable
explanation.